Years ago,in New Orleans, my mother had a friend who had a friend who knew Hemingway.

In his possession was a copy of, I think, A Farewell to Arms...certainly something that preceded For Whom the Bell Tolls in which the obscenities were replaced by the word "obscenity." (My favorite line: "I obscenity on you, obscene son of a Spanish obscenity."

This one has blanks where the editors thought the language was too rough. EH had gone through his friend's copy and carefully filled in every blank.